If anybody's reading this, and wondering, is this movie worth watching? The answer is yes, it's on netflix, stop wasting your time and just do it. It's a great goddamn movie, full of sweet emotions.
I don't want to get into the story, the trailers give pretty much everything away, guy likes girl, seeks help of nerdy chinese girl to write letter to girl, girl has boyfriend, girl responds positively to the guy, girl realizes the guy is not the same person texting him, guy realizes he's fallen in love with the nerdy chinese girl, girl realizes she loves the nerdy girl, guy kisses nerdy girl, girl sees, things break, boyfriend proposes, girl rejects in public, guy saves girl from emotional humiliation, nerdy girl helps girl out, the two kiss, but they go to college in separate places so nothing's gonna come off it. Add in the obnoxiously annoying and rich boyfriend, the poor girl, the hardworking immigrant family with depressed dad, the hardworking young american boy, and this is the perfect American movie, sorta. The perfect poster child of the great american dream. That Americans suck generally, but there's some amazing kind understanding people who will come around, and they're so hardworking, and their work ethic and passion can turn around even depressed immigrants into working hard, and no matter how difficult their circumstances are, America is the land where the immigrants keep working and working and working, until they just push through and succeed. Which in the movie's case, means going to Grinnell. That goddamn treasonous school that didn't even waitlist me. And thank the gods for that, middle of nowhere corn country doesn't compare to living in one of the most thriving, innovative cities in the world, where a large portion of my old friends also happened to be. Oops, sorry for the digression, still a bit raw there.
It's a really sweet movie, what I like the most is that the lead character is not particularly remarkable-looking, she's not got movie charm or persona, she's you and me, in how we work, how we act towards others, and how we've got the fire lit up on our butts that just makes keep pushing and pushing and pushing, and not worry about the world. Calling somebody 'plain-looking' is never a compliment, except in this case, when we can actually identify with how a character looks and acts. Great makeup job.
This is for the time you're looking for inspiration to stop putting things off, and just get on it, it's about how privileged we've been and ignoring the great advantages we've been given. About how everybody and absolutely everybody is a 'person', we have our own thoughts desires and plans, vision for our lives, we should be respected as such. That we are not just side characters in somebody else's story, that we're not just accountants and bookkeepers and behind-the-scenes people of others' stories, but we're the goddamn actors and stuntsmen of our tales.
It's for when you need something sweet and nice, to feel good about the world, even when everything seems to be going down. When you need to feel good about being in America, and the future. It's about hope, and understanding each other, how people can come around and we must not give up hope, that intolerance is not pathological and if it is, it's a treatable disease. We can come on top. The world needs more love all around.
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